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The main focus of my work is miscarriages of justice. This involves challenging police forces, policing bodies and the CPS over investigative and prosecutorial misconduct that has led to wrongful convictions.

My areas of operation are principally North, South and West Yorkshire – and Greater Manchester. I occasionally take on cases outside of those locations if there is a direct link to one upon which I am already engaged.

A number of high profile cases with which I am, or have been, closely involved have been featured on television, radio and in the national, regional and local press. These include Operations Lamp (the ex-PC Danny Major case), Vertex (the Jimmy Savile whitewash by West Yorkshire Police), Rome and Hyson (the £1 million harassment case involving the pusuit of two citizen journalists by North Yorkshire Police).

Along with the family of Andrew Feather, I am heavily involved with the painstaking investigation that will, eventually, lead to the quashing of his 2014 ‘joint enterprise‘ murder conviction. Aged 24, Andrew is serving 20 years (recently reduced from 26) in HMP Gartree.

Complaint advocacy also forms a core part of my justice campaigning. I provide a drafting service for the submission of complaints against the more serious types of police misconduct, and subsequent appeals against investigation outcomes to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). This is done utilising my lengthy experience with, and working knowledge of, the Police Reform Act, IPCC Statutory Guidance and Police Conduct Regulations.

Much of my work is pro-bono and any donations would help me to continue to provide specialist assistance to the most deserving cases. This can be done by simply clicking on the ‘Donate’ button on the right hand side of this page?

I do not provide legal advice, or purport to do so, but have succeeded twice in agreeing consent orders that gave the effect of quashing IPCC appeal assessments of flawed police investigations. That should be taken in context of the IPCC’s success rate of around 97% in defending judicial review applications.

The most notable case, however, was a defeat in the Administrative Court when assisting Wakefield businessman, Anthony Ramsden. On his first ever visit to Elland Road stadium in Leeds in 2011, he was assaulted by police officers. Over the next four years, the only unsuccessful appeal assessment against five increasingly inadequate police investigations resulted in a substantive hearing of a judicial review claim. The outcome, in which failings of both the police and the IPCC were criticised by the judge, is now oft-quoted case law: R (Ramsden) v IPCC [2013] EWHC 3969 Admin.

I am also one of the very few people in West Yorkshire – or further afield even – who has successfully laid an information concerning private prosecution of a serving police officer. A warrant was issued, a plea hearing took place at Huddersfield Magistrates’ Court, but the Crown Prosecution Service took over the case and discontinued it on the day before the trial was listed to take place in April, 2016. It was ‘not in the public interest’ they said.

I am also one of a increasing number of data practitioners resorting to county court action against errant chief constables who abuse their role as data controllers. My current (adjourned) action against North Yorkshire Police, and it’s Police and Crime Commissioner, is well documented.

Outside of my mainstream activities, I am a committed supporter of social justice. Particularly, easing the plight of the homeless (inspired by the story of Leeds vagrant David Oluwale) and victims of child poverty.